luminous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 发光的； 光明的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were numerous bays along the shore, easy of access, but the yacht did not drop anchor in any; she continued her course fearlessly through the luminous darkness.
-- Here and there luminous spots appeared, dying out and rekindling constantly, in all directions, like fantastic lights dancing over the surface of an immense lagoon.
-- On returning to the bottom of the tree, they found themselves, to their great surprise, in a sort of dim twilight, produced by myriads of luminous specks which appeared buzzing confusedly over the surface of the water.
-- In spite of the absence of the moon, the night was almost luminous with the light of the southern constellations.
-- The luminous spores of the cryptograms shone in the darkness with intensity.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, 'Agicultooral character.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate, they were an amazingly ugly gang, and over the heads of them under the forward lug peered the black face of the man whose eyes were luminous in the dark.
-- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
-- On the farther side I saw through a bluish haze a tangle of trees and creepers, and above these again the luminous blue of the sky.
-- The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted into one formless blackness.
-- He was crouched together into the smallest possible compass, his luminous green eyes turned over his shoulder regarding me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a less advanced season of the year the typhoon, according to a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade of electric flame; but in the winter equinox it was to be feared that it would burst upon them with great violence.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was intimidated by the luminous cases of mahogany and plate glass, by the opera hats and lustrous mufflers and creamy riding breeches.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the zenith, where the fog was less thick, gray shades bordered the clouds; under an opaque belt, a luminous line clearly traced the ho rizon.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mr. Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.
-- Behind the luminous streams of this aurora militaris, she could see the hue of Troy's sword arm, spread in a scarlet haze over the space covered by its motions, like a twanged harpstring, and behind all Troy himself, mostly facing her; sometimes, to show the rear cuts, half turned away, his eye nevertheless always keenly measuring her breadth and outline, and his lips tightly closed in sustained effort.
-- The strange luminous semi-opacities of fine autumn afternoons and eves intensified into Rembrandt effects the few yellow sunbeams which came through holes and divisions in the canvas, and spirted like jets of gold-dust across the dusky blue atmosphere of haze pervading the tent, until they alighted on inner surfaces of cloth opposite, and shone like little lamps suspended there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In pursuance of this luminous conception I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's at night, that I had a particular reason for wishing to get on in life, and that I should feel very much obliged to her if she would impart all her learning to me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each hillock, every rock, every stone, every asperity of the soil had its share of the luminous effulgence, and its shadow fell heavily on the soil.
-- And these crystals, they appear like luminous globes."
-- With a strange sense of resignation and despair, I watched the luminous current in the coil getting less and less.
-- Gazing around, I began to think of the theory of the English captain who compared the earth to a vast hollow sphere in the interior of which the air is retained in a luminous state by means of atmospheric pressure, while two stars, Pluto and Proserpine, circled there in their mysterious orbits.
-- Silvery rays of electric light, reflected here and there upon some small spots of water, brought up luminous sparkles in the long wake of our cumbrous bark.
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